Cast
Viola Davis
Acting
Cast
Viola Davis
Known for
Acting
Born
1965-08-11
From
St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Biography
Viola Davis (/vaɪˈoʊlə/ vy-OH-lə; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway debut in the August Wilson play Seven Guitars (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the titular character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a complex mother in Doubt (2008), a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Davis joined the DCEU playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016). She has also starred in the crime drama Widows(2018), and historical action film The Woman King (2022). Davis and her husband are founders of the production company JuVee Productions, and she is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support for human rights and women of color. She became a L'Oréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me won her the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
★7.0
MOVIE2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
as The Chameleon (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2022
Black Adam
as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE2021
The Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
★8.1
MOVIE2013
Prisoners
as Nancy Birch
★7.0
MOVIE2023
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
★7.5
MOVIE2001
Ocean's Eleven
as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
★8.2
MOVIE2011
The Help
as Aibileen Clark
★5.9
MOVIE2016
Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
★7.4
MOVIE2009
Law Abiding Citizen
as Mayor April Henry
★7.6
MOVIE2022
The Woman King
as Nanisca
★6.2
MOVIE2010
Knight and Day
as CIA Director Isabel George
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Ender's Game
as Major Gwen Anderson
★7.4
MOVIE2021
The Unforgivable
as Liz Ingram
★6.7
MOVIE2007
Disturbia
as Detective Parker
★6.2
MOVIE2010
Eat Pray Love
as Delia Shiraz
★7.1
MOVIE2000
Traffic
as Social Worker
★5.5
MOVIE2015
Blackhat
as Carol Barrett
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Fences
as Rose Maxson
★6.0
MOVIE2013
Beautiful Creatures
as Amma Treadeau
★7.3
MOVIE2023
Air
as Deloris Jordan
★6.8
MOVIE2005
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
as Grandma
★6.4
MOVIE2025
G20
as President Danielle Sutton
★6.1
MOVIE2006
World Trade Center
as Mother in Hospital
★6.5
MOVIE2018
Widows
as Veronica Rawlings
★6.4
MOVIE2005
Syriana
as CIA Chairwoman
★6.8
MOVIE2009
State of Play
as Dr. Judith Franklin
★7.2
MOVIE2008
Doubt
as Mrs. Miller
★6.7
MOVIE1998
Out of Sight
as Moselle
★7.0
MOVIE2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Solaris
as Gordon
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Nights in Rodanthe
as Jean
★6.5
MOVIE2010
Trust
as Gail Friedman
★6.3
MOVIE2001
Kate & Leopold
as Policewoman
★6.9
MOVIE2010
It's Kind of a Funny Story
as Dr. Eden Minerva
★6.6
MOVIE2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Ma Rainey
★7.1
MOVIE2002
Far from Heaven
as Sybil
MOVIE2027
Children of Blood and Bone
as Mama Agba
★6.8
MOVIE2014
Get On Up
as Susie Brown
★6.8
MOVIE2005
Stone Cold
as Molly Crane
★6.8
MOVIE2011
Dark Girls
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Custody
as Martha Schulman
★6.8
MOVIE2009
Beyond All Boundaries
as Hortense Johnson
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Madea Goes to Jail
as Ellen
★6.6
MOVIE2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman
★7.0
MOVIE2007
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Molly Crane
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Love, Marilyn
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane
★6.9
MOVIE2002
Antwone Fisher
as Eva May
★6.1
MOVIE2012
Won't Back Down
as Nona Alberts
★6.9
MOVIE1998
The Pentagon Wars
as Sgt. Fanning
★6.2
MOVIE2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Professor Lillian Friedman
★7.0
MOVIE2019
Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane
★6.7
MOVIE2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman
★7.5
MOVIE2017
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
as Self (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Narrator (voice)
★4.9
MOVIE2001
The Shrink Is In
as Robin
★6.4
MOVIE1996
The Substance of Fire
as Nurse
★6.1
MOVIE2015
Lila & Eve
as Lila Walcott
★5.4
MOVIE2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
★5.6
MOVIE2006
The Architect
as Tonya Neely
★6.1
MOVIE2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Florida Evans
★5.6
MOVIE2001
Amy & Isabelle
as Dottie
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Doubt: Stage to Screen
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Grace & Glorie
as Rosemary Allbright
★6.2
MOVIE2006
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino
MOVIETBA
Small Great Things
★8.7
MOVIE2019
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
★6.4
MOVIE2020
Giving Voice
as Self
MOVIETBA
House of Games
MOVIE2019
Operation Othello
as Narrator
MOVIE2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
MOVIE2015
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
as Self
MOVIETBA
Ally Clark
as Ally Clark
★7.5
MOVIE2024
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
MOVIETBA
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
as Rachel Dupree
★6.4
MOVIE2022
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
as Self
MOVIETBA
I Almost Forgot About You
as Dr. Georgia Young
MOVIE2019
A Touch of Sugar
as Narrator
MOVIE1998
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
as Sharon Hughes
★1.0
MOVIE2025
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
as Narration
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Food 2050
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIETBA